Mauricio Macri, disconnection and celebrations in the south

By candlelight, with vases and a table set in the style of Juliana Awada, Mauricio Macri celebrates its 64 years in Cumelen. The main course was lamb and the guests were mostly men, without their partners.

The former president occupied in Villa La Angostura, the place where he took refuge since his return from Qatar and from which he only left sporadically. Like the tour he made a few days ago to accompany the PRO candidate from La Pampa, Martín Maqueira. He participated in a series of activities in Santa Rosa to give his space a boost in the first election of the year. But then he returned to the ostracism that only the exclusive country of the south allows him.

Far from the feelings of other times, where he believed he was excluded by close leaders who were concerned only with his candidacies, this summer Macri is comforted: all those who have aspirations have had to go see him until the end of the world. Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia BullrichIn principle, but also Miguel Ángel Pichetto and other politicians on a smaller scale. He relaxes at the thought.

festivities. In his networks, Awada showed some details of the multiple celebrations of the former president. In the morning, a breakfast with coffee, toast, jams and regional fruits. At noon, to sing her “happy birthday” a rogel cake from the Angosturan pastry chef Juan Cruz Lamuedra, the former first lady’s favorite in that city.

For the night, the celebration closed to the inner circle of the former president. Gustavo Arribas, Martín Seefeld and Hernán Nisenbaum They were some of the guests, according to what NEWS could find out. The first two, with perfect attendance at Macri’s birthdays in the south.

Before strictly controlling who had called or sent messages to greet him regularly, how to do it, Macri recorded a selfie video to share with his followers: “What a beautiful morning, a friend would say. 64 years is a lot, but the truth is that I feel very young, ”he says, looking at the camera. “We are going for 64 more years, why not. And let’s go Argentina, I have a lot of faith in it. Besides, let’s remember that we are world champions for four more years. Let’s go Argentina, for our future”.

The first lines of the PRO made their greeting public through networks, but not their coalition partners. Elisa Carrio not only did he not say “happy birthday” publicly, but he also launched his presidential candidacy on that very day: cartel problems. Neither did the radical candidates Gerardo Morales, Facundo Manes and Martin Lousteau They gave him a message. Coldness in Together.

Macri’s agenda is empty of politics for the coming weeks. In fact, upon his return from Villa La Angostura he will be in Buenos Aires for a few days, because he will go to Italy to carry out his activities as president of the FIFA Foundation. The absence also serves to withstand the pressure of the interested leaders, the militancy and journalism, to find out whether or not he will be part of the game in 2023. He continues to play the mystery.

Decisions. Although the former president feels comfortable in secrecy and flirting with the possibility of launching himself, sources close to one of the yellow candidates who are in the race consider that, indirectly, the former president has already made it clear to them that he is not going to participate . In fact, his efforts are made to appear equidistant between Larreta and Bullrich.

The last meetings they had with both in Cumelén are a true reflection of that: as the leader of the PRO, he wants to stabilize outside the inmate, guarantee equality and ensure that the dispute is fair, without cheap shots.

But the partners of Together for Change they ask for certainties. Radical deputy Mario Negri protested the “indefiniteness” of the former president. “He does not do the coalition good,” they indicated in an interview in La Nación +. And then he raised the bar: “It doesn’t do the Argentines any good either.”

In Macri’s environment they understand that it will not be necessary for the former president to be a candidate to become one of the protagonists of the year. The Frente de Todos will constantly bring him into the ring, even if he does not appear on the lists: the ruling party’s plan is to associate him with the PRO’s chosen one to show that there is no future in the opposition coalition. It will be a year of great exhaustion.

That is why the leader of the opposition would like the disconnection that began in November to be necessary, when he moved to Qatar for a month to fully experience the World Cup, which continued in Cumelén and will continue with FIFA’s activities in Europe. By the time he returns to Buenos Aires, the political temperature will be a few degrees from boiling point.